NASA will let you send your name on a flight around the Moon and back.
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration launched from The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday morning and is tasked with using lasers to communicate in space in Florida this Sunday morning and is tasked with using lasers to communicate in space. LiveNOW from FOX's Rain Augustine speaks to NASA about the mission.
The mission will be the first test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems, according to the agency. It is the first in a series of complex missions that will hopefully provide a foundation for human-piloted deep space exploration."Artemis I will be the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. The flight paves the way toward landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon!," NASA wrote in a statement online.
"All eyes will be on the historic Launch Complex 39B when Orion and the Space Launch System lift off for the first time from NASA’s modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida," said NASA.
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